Blood/Love - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Jason Ardizzone-West (set design) works on Broadway (associate/assistant for Bullets Over Broadway, If/Then; set designer for Bullets Over Broadway National Tour), Off Broadway (The Orion Experience), and most recently with Juilliard (Measure For Measure, The Winter’s Tale, Rabbit Hole). Jason teaches set design at NYU Tisch, and is a member of USA 829. www.ardizzonewest.com Hunter Bird (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based director, writer. Career highlights include directing the world premieres of Bronco Billy: The Musical (London’s Charing Cross, TimeOut 5-star rated; Los Angeles’ Skylight Theater, 2 Ovation Awards), XY (Village Theater with Alhadeff Productions), and The Laodamiad (Signature Theatre, Dramaturg Oskar Eustis with development at Roundabout Theater Company). He's developed new work with Ars Nova, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The McKittrick Hotel, Musical Theater Factory, NAMT Festival, and the Getty Villa. As a writer, Bird co-created The Pansy Craze starring Mason Alexander Park (London’s Underbelly Boulevard developed with Scrap Paper Pictures), She Reached for ... read more Ben Covello is a New York Music Director, Pianist/Conductor, Guitarist, and Vocal Coach. ​ He was recently touring the country (and world!) as part of the Rent 25th Anniversary Farewell Tour where he served as Music Director/Piano/Conductor as well as Associate Music Director/Keys 2/Guitar 2 (Ben likes to wear many metaphorical hats. He can't really pull off the physical hat look, but that's ok!) He also had a stint subbing the keys 1 chair for Wicked on Broadway. Off-Broadway, Ben has been and continues to be involved with exciting new productions, Music Directing and playing piano for a new production at BAM that ... read more Paz's Broadway credits include Hadestown (2019 TONY, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk for Outstanding Sound Design nominations); Associate Designer of Bandstand (2017); Dear Evan Hansen (2016) Disaster the Musical (2015); The Assembled Parties (MCC); and Fela! (2009). Paz has also worked Off-Broadway on Twelfth Night and Othello (The Public Theater- 2018 Shakespeare in the Park); Miss You Like Hell (The Public Theater); Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and As You Like it (The Public Theater- 2017 Shakespeare in the Park); Burn All Night (A.R.T Oberon Stage); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); A Sucker EmCee (LAByrinth); The Muscles in Our Toes ... read more Off-Broadway: Sons of the Prophet, Tigers Be Still (Roundabout); All New People, The Talls (Second Stage); The Singing Forest (The Public/NYSF); Thinner Than Water, Jack Goes Boating (LAByrinth Theater Co, Drama Desk nom); Apple Cove (Women's Project); Frankenstein (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Nom). International: Blackbird (West End); Troilus and Cressida (RSC); Electra (Epidaurus- Greece). Opera: Bluebeard's Castle/Il Prigioniero (La Scala, Nederlandse Opera); Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni (Opéra de Lyon). Regional: ACT, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Houston Grand Opera, Huntington Theater Co, The Old Globe, Santa Fe Opera, Shakespeare Theater Co, Signature Theatre Co, Westport, others.